Knigh Perfect 50 Points

Knightmare 50 Points

A Cold Knight in Hell 100 Points

Author Comments

Stab, dash and charge attack your way through all three levels of this fast-paced fantasy beat’em up, and show the Dark Lord who’s boss!

Controls:
Arrow keys – for moving around, Z – for stabbing things and menus, X – for blocking things that try to stab you, hold Z – for a super-charged attack, double tap direction – for dashing to safety
You can also use C+V in place of Z+X if you have a keyboard layout that makes that more convenient.
Gamepads also supported! (provided they work in your browser)

This game was created for the PICO-8, a virtual console with 32kb cartridges, 16-color display and 8-bit beep and boop audio - and this is the absolute most I managed to squeeze out of that :).

If controls stop responding, just click the game window :).

Reviews

Very fun! About the only thing I can recommend you do is perhaps add in a few more characters or other benefits for completing the game. If you have a short game with only a few levels, it's usually important to have some benefit to playing through it again, instead of just a score system. Maybe have it where you unlock something for being the game on the hardest setting, or maybe completing it with the highest rating possible? Just throwing some ideas other there.

It reminds me of the old Atari games, where you can sit down and complete them in around 10 minutes if you're good.

This game is fucking amazing. There absolutely needs to be more of this. Every enemy feels like a real threat which you have to prioritize at times, specifically the leeches and alien looking spitters that'll tear you the hell apart if you don't deal with them quickly. Yet, no enemy feels like it takes too long to take care of and with your dash attack you can move around fast enough past the skeletal enemies or avoid the little buggers in order to attack properly. I can bet money that people who are the type to ignore the block button in any game entirely are going to be a little turned off by this game at first, even I was when I had just started off, but don't listen to them at all. I am in desperate need for a sequel to this that is larger by tons. This is the kind of game that, with enough content of course, I would gladly spend hours on end in and honestly be willing to keep going even if no save system was put in and I lost said hours of progress because I got careless.